Anyone who pays the slightest attention to the daily passage of events in the news was aware that white-supremacist alt-right groups were planning a rally in Washington, D.C., this past weekend. The anticipatory media coverage of the event didn’t quite reach Super-Bowl hype levels, but it was close. And the number of white supremacists who showed up for the Sunday rally?
Not 200. Not 100. About 20.You might think this means the alt-right are a fringe, barely visible group who political people are using to fear monger about the other side.
Of course, you'd be wrong.
Maybe it's true that a lot of people don't call themselves, "alt-right", but when you include the 38% of the population who don't think Affirmative Action is a good thing, the 37% of the population who consider feminism a negative term, and the 63 million people who voted Trump, it's obvious that the alt-right is all around us.
At our grocery stores. On our buses. In our closets.
Maybe even our closest friends are alt-righters.
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| ^^^ Trump voter |
